Download

Description/Abstract

The scholarly Mozart community – still working its way through the books and articles piled up from theextravagant celebrations of the composer in 1991 – can hardly be blamed for viewing this year’s memorialmayhem with a certain degree of weariness in advance. Maybe that’s why the Internationale StiftungMozarteum in Salzburg, arguably the world’s most prominent institution devoted solely to Mozart, decidedto get their 2006 conference on the books in December 2005. Their rather neutral concept (‘The YoungMozart 1756–1780: Philology – Analysis – Reception’) promised a sober, scholarly, informative internationalround of papers on a comfortably broad topic. This promise was met.